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...Competition authorities had been worried that EssilorLuxottica — which was formed from the €50bn merger of the Italian maker of Ray-Ban, Luxottica, and the world’s leading lens maker Essilor — would have...
...But the maker of Ray-Ban and Oakley glasses has not yet committed to offloading shops as it argues that it might be too difficult to sell them at a time of particularly tough trading conditions because of...
...EssilorLuxottica, which also owns Ray-Ban, declined to comment....
...Last year, EssilorLuxottica agreed to buy a 76.72 per cent stake in GrandVision, an optical retailer, for €28 per share from Hal Holding....
...Hal could not immediately be reached for comment....
...One evening he was working on a self-portrait by one of his favourite artists, the Dutch Master Frans Hals, and found himself enraptured in his labours....
...Pitt’s character is his very own HAL 9000. And, at risk of giving you too much shopping to carry, his Prince Hal too to his father’s “uneasy lies the head” cosmic crown-wearer....
...EssilorLuxottica, whose brands include Ray-Ban and Oakley, finally looked to have resolved a long-running governance battle between the French and Italian sides of the group in May....
...Hal Lindsey, a noted TV evangelist, helped raise finance by peddling over-the-counter (not traded on an exchange) investments to his vast readership....
...His fictional HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-wrote, presages many of today’s fears about artificial intelligence....
...That is no a heavenly ray, though; it is the gleam of money. Rembrandt’s Amsterdam feels modern because it was deeply materialistic....
...I have vivid memories of tiny audience members trying to catch the rays of light scattered around the darkened auditorium in their show Brilliant....
...Wallace’s is a world of fax machines and cathode ray tubes rather than the internet and smartphones....
...But photographs by Man Ray, Robert Frank, Ed van der Elsken or Rineke Dijkstra (two of the best-known Dutch names in international photography) are not the obvious attractions....
...Cinema, the most machine-based of art forms, has shown a certain amount of hostility towards silicon-based life forms – think of the murderous computer HAL in Kubrick’s 2001, or Roy Batty in Ridley Scott...
...The manufacturer said Jim Albaugh would end his 37-year career with the company in October and immediately turn over the leadership of Boeing Commercial Airplanes to Ray Conner, 57, who was formerly senior...
...Ford Motor on Monday offered a rare ray of hope for a car industry in the doldrums by reporting that it had made a $1bn profit in the third quarter....
...Ray Young, chief financial officer, said in a presentation last month that the new GM would be “well-prepared, but the process will not be easy”....
...His cabinet includes Illinoisians such as Arne Duncan, education secretary and Ray LaHood, transport secretary....
...The fate of the Hawker 4000 will be widely watched in the industry, says Ray Jaworowski, senior aerospace analyst at Forecast International, the US research group....
...Hals is the pioneer....
...Probably, says Ray C....
...Hal 9000 vs Dave. Coming soon to an investment bank near you – FatKat artificial intelligence vs lean, mean human intellect....
...“Portrait of a Dutch Brewer” which will be displayed for the first time next month at the Hals Museum in Haarlem....
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